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Telecommunications stats in DR
INDICATOR METRIC TOTAL
FIXED TELEPHONY
LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 1,032,558
MOBILE TELEPHONY
LINES IN OPERATION (POSTPAID & PREPAID) QTY OF LINES 8,897,310
PREPAID LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 7,331,015
POSTPAID LINES IN OPERATION QTY OF LINES 1,566,295
OTHER TELEPHONY INDICATORS
IP LINES QTY OF LINES 29,955
TOTAL LINES (FIXED, MOBILE, IP) QTY OF LINES 9,959,823
PAID TV
TOTAL SUSCRIBERS OF PAID TV (CABLE, IPTV, SATELLITE OR WIRELESS) ACCOUNTS 409,488
INTERNET
INTERNET ACCESS ACCOUNTS 1,721,814
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Source: Indotel.gob.do - July 2012
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Internet in DR
Resolution 141-10: Indotel will only provide quantity of accounts .
ONE will give the number of users, but no updated data available
yet.
Accounts (July 2012): 1,721,814
Percentage of mobile Internet accounts: 72%
Percentage of residential accounts: 93%
Internet users (last reported by Indotel in 2011): 4,116,870
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Source: Indotel.gob.do / ONE.gob.do
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Most visited sites in DR
Top 10 General Top 10 Local
Position Website Position Website
1 Facebook.com 12 ListinDiario.com
2 Google.com.do 13 Bpd.com.do
3 Youtube.com 14 DiarioLibre.com
4 Google.com 17 ElCaribe.com.do
5 Live.com 23 Remolacha.net
6 Twitter.com 26 Gob.do
7 Yahoo.com 28 Hoy.com.do
8 Blogspot.com 30 Alofokemusic.net
9 Wikipedia.org 32 Claro.com.do
10 Amazon.com 33 Emarket.com.do
Social Networks and news tops the Internet traffic.
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Source: Alexa.com – October 2012
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Mobile phones in RD
Mobile phone lines: 8,897,310
Prepaid: 7,331,015
Postpaid 1,566,295
Percentage of prepaid: 82%
Mobile phone penetration in population: 94%
With an average growth of 2.5%, mobile penetration will
reach 100% in the next 3 years.
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Source: Indotel – July 2012
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Twitter stats in DR – October 2012
Dominican Republic is number 49 in the world with 0.06% of
the tweets per day.
Tweets per day: 240,000
Penetration of population*: 3%
Penetration of online population*: 7%
Our estimation is 300K Twitter users in DR
Source of 0.06%: A World of Tweets, * Using our estimation 9
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Facebook stats in DR – October 2012
Position in the ranking of countries: 54
Penetration of population: 28.42%
Penetration of online population*: 68.05%
Male/Female user ratio on Facebook: 50%/50%
2,791,640 Facebook users in DR
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Source: Socialbakers.com, * Using Indotel’s number of Internet users